Friday, September 17, 2010

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One of my favorite movies. I couldn't believe hearing all of the negative reviews critics and even my friends gave it. Maybe I'm just too big a fan of the legend and won't allow myself to dislike a movie like this.

I've visited Point Pleasant and it's a bit surreal knowing the history of the events that took place there.

This is the movie that got me my one IMDB credit. I have a generally positive impression of it. It certainly reached a broader audience than you'd expect from a movie called The Mothman Prophecies, though obviously it would be neat to see a movie closer to the source material.

I found myself watching this multiple times, and I notice something new with each viewing, cleverly hidden in the cinematography and sound-scapes, but always present. After researching such anomalous incidents myself, i have to say the director did an excellent job of portraying the essence of what is, at it's core, an inconceivably manipulative phenomenon. As keel said himself in the book, he was more interested in the "source" of the phenomena than it's bizarre, often cartoonish manifestations. The film renders a haunting portrait of that source